Gillian is an artist based in Toronto, Canada (originally from the Pacific Northwest), who works predominantly with textiles, paper and text. With experience working in both prestigious institutions and private historical collections, and taking leading roles in community arts initiatives, she brings a comprehensive skill set to all that she does. Gillian has had success behind-the-scenes and in front-facing roles, in exhibition curation, digital content creation, and operational efficiency in art spaces. Her artistic practice, which focuses mainly on textile and paper media, explores themes of interrelationship and embodied presence. She is passionate about fostering connection, healing and collaboration in the lives of creative people. As part of her role as a guide and coach to other creatives online and in her community, she hosts seasonal gatherings (The Hearth) for creatives to meet themselves and each other in conversation and collective healing.

The roots of her artistic work as well as her work with others one-on-one and in groups extend all the way through her own experience as a self-taught artist, back to her wildly expressive childhood. As she got older, it became more difficult to believe in and stand up for her innate creative abiities and actually move forward on her path as an artist and intuitive. She has for the last 8 years dedicated her life to recovering her own creativity, her own expressive power and voice, and now devotes her life to living that artistic dream and also helping others heal and recover from their own experiences of creative repression. Her work, in all its various expressions, finds common soil in the praxes of somatics, ecology, and spirituality. Agnes Martin, Lenore Tawney, Helen Frankenthaler and Koji Enokura are major influences for her visual art.